The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election: 75 Days Of Destiny.

By Jerry Alatalo

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.”

– JOHN MORLEY (1838-1923) British statesman

an Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein and her Vice Presidential running mate Ajamu Baraka pull off a political, historic and odds-defying “miracle” over the next 75 days and win the 2016 presidential election? Just thinking about such a possible scenario coming to pass on voting day November 8 gives the idea of “the old college try” a whole new meaning and level of intensity.

What can one discern from observing neither Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump have expressed any welcoming of Dr. Jill Stein and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson to televised debates, marking the 1st time in U.S. presidential political history where four candidates take the stage and engage in battles of ideas? In answer to that question… Because blocking Dr. Stein and Mr. Johnson from debates is effectively blocking democracy itself, the stances of Ms. Clinton and Mr. Trump are equally undemocratic and should lead to conclusion by the American people in rejecting Clinton and Trump as fundamentally unfit for the high office of President.

There is nothing stopping Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump from gladly accepting and embracing proposals for 4-way debates, numerous and lengthy, in the remaining 75 days of the campaign. So, if there is nothing but their own reasons stopping them from welcoming 4-way debates, how do the American people grapple with Clinton and Trump’s persistent choosing of exclusionary 2-way debates meant to “inform” voters on their “leadership options”?

The most important question Americans need to ask themselves is: “what are Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump afraid of?” In an ideal world, at every four-year interval America’s voters attempt to learn about the candidates running for President of the United States – the men and women who’ve decided to present to “We, the people” what they each believe are the best ideas and options moving forward. By firmly denying the fullest range of ideas by candidates with a mathematical chance of winning from occurring, the only logical conclusion is that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have the real fear that Americans will decide Dr. Jill Stein and Gary Johnson have better ideas.

Again, in an ideal world, perceptions held by most Americans of a good or great President is of a man or woman who encourages and fully welcomes better ideas. By taking positions excluding Dr. Jill Stein and Gary Johnson from debates, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump dismiss, ignore, and trample over the highest perceived images of the American people regarding what separates potential leaders of the nation, making clear the distinguishing human characteristics of generally held conceptions of leadership, and making identifiable those who fall short of the mark, the mediocre, those who are very good, and the (hopefully) truly great.

Students of history are aware of humanity’s fundamental evolutionary nature. In the year 2016, those who disregard the wishes of Americans and people around the world for more inclusive and full-range discussions about the future of life where they reside and across the Earth place themselves on the “wrong side of history”. They stubbornly maintain a death-grip on ways of conducting politics, business, economics, militarism and international relations most human beings perceive and have concluded are counter-productive, and the antithesis of evolutionary historical processes inherent to, and inseparable from, the human species.

At this historical juncture in the year 2016 – in the remaining 75 days until Americans decide who they want as their next President – the perennial process of human evolution toward establishment of global conditions most conducive for profound increase in measures of peace, justice and truth must, through unanimous agreement, become remembered and take its rightful place at all tables of serious discussion and debate.

Accurately accounting for the human evolutionary process and acting in concert with natural, inherent workings of life on Earth toward increasing improvement and beneficial choices entailed in building a better “human condition” is nothing less than moral, ethical and honest. “We, the people” are wise enough to listen, compare, assess, imagine and decide the future of life on Earth.

Open up the presidential debates…

(Thank you to RT America at YouTube)

‘Standard Technique’ Runs In Bush Family.

by Jerry Alatalo

In the following film about CIA disinformation on Angola and Nicaragua during the 1970’s and 80’s, agency whistleblower David MacMichael refers to CIA insiders calling the planting of false news/media reporting as the ‘standard technique’. In light of the positions held by current presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s father George H. W. Bush as Director of the CIA, Vice-President for eight years under Ronald Reagan (1980-88), then President from 1988-92 , and despite the effort of Jeb to distance himself from his father and brother through asserting “I’m my own man”, Americans must feel very appropriately concerned about Jeb Bush possibly becoming the next President.

Why Jeb Bush must become completely stopped in his efforts to win the presidency is identified by looking at the Bush Dynasty family history. Jeb’s grandfather Prescott Bush, father George H. W and brother George W. went to Yale, and all three belonged to Yale’s controversial “Skull and Bones”.  Jeb Bush went to the University of Texas and received a degree in Latin American Studies. Prescott was U.S. Senator in Connecticut, became associated with Brown Brothers / Harriman Wall Street investment bank, and  some researchers of World War II claim Prescott Bush, the Dulles brothers and others collaborated with Germany’s Nazi Party and Hitler.

Think President George H. W. Bush standing at the podium lying to the world before Iraq War I with feigned outrage about Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait hospitals “tearing babies out of incubators!!” and the former CIA Director, then Vice President  “Pappy” Bush’s role in the Iran-Contra Scandal supplying the Contra mercenary forces with weapons used to massacre Nicaraguan peasants. Think Jeb’s brother and former President from 2000-2008 George W. lying to the world about “Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction!!” and his willingness to mention during a State of the Union address televised across the nation, in the view of all Americans, “mushroom clouds” over New York City.  Think about the profound all-around damage done to America economically, to its soldiers who perished or returned deeply scarred physically, emotionally and spiritually, and to its international reputation.

Think about the estimated 1 million Iraqis who perished because Jeb Bush’s brother George, Dick Cheney, Tony Blair and all the others lied.

Admitting to no great passion for developing the ability to peel off names, dates, etc. of American Nazi collaborators during the years surrounding World War II, but satisfied to have an awareness that powerful men in America had indeed helping to finance Nazis and Adolf Hitler, I would defer to or recommend watching University of California – Santa Cruz Professor Daniel Sheehan’s World Politics lectures this past year during the course “Trajectory of Justice”.

http://romeroinstitute.org/archives/ucsc-course-archive/2015-the-trajectory-of-justice

The course is available for free viewing in 18 quality 90-minute videos. Daniel Sheehan is a graduate of both Harvard Law and Divinity schools, first became well-known as the lead attorney for the surviving family of Karen Silkwood (see the movie starring Meryl Streep “Slkwood”), and was closely involved in the details of some of the most important legal cases in America’s history, including Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, Iran-Contra and others. If one takes the time to view Mr. Sheehan’s multi-video 2015 course “Trajectory of Justice”, I will guarantee here the man or woman who does so will experience a profound historical perceptions change after taking in one after another after another seemingly inexhaustible series of astonishing, little-known, important facts coming from Professor Sheehan. The information is the type that every American (men and women of all nations, for that matter) would be wise to learn.

Put another way, for those not already aware how dangerous a “President Jeb Bush” administration would truly be, after watching the following film on CIA media disinformation and hearing what Dan Sheehan says during “Trajectory of Justice” (2015 Course) – one will understand how urgent is the task to stop Jeb Bush.

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(Thank you to Americans for Change at YouTube)